From Nature to Biosphere
Mahrane, Yannick
From Nature to Biosphere - 2012.
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How, between the end of the Second World War and the 1972 Stockholm conference on the human environment, did the environment become a global problem and a category of international political action? This article analyzes the geopolitical context and the types of warning and scientific expertise that shaped the emergence and developments of the “global environmental” category. While the category of “nature” declined, the article, through the prism of the Cold War and decolonization, looks at questions of the international conservation of resources, the “biological bases of planetary productivity,” then of pollutions and “the biosphere,” and analyzes their inclusion in an ecosystemic conception of the planet and their involvement in an international political agenda.
From Nature to Biosphere - 2012.
5
How, between the end of the Second World War and the 1972 Stockholm conference on the human environment, did the environment become a global problem and a category of international political action? This article analyzes the geopolitical context and the types of warning and scientific expertise that shaped the emergence and developments of the “global environmental” category. While the category of “nature” declined, the article, through the prism of the Cold War and decolonization, looks at questions of the international conservation of resources, the “biological bases of planetary productivity,” then of pollutions and “the biosphere,” and analyzes their inclusion in an ecosystemic conception of the planet and their involvement in an international political agenda.
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